SC10 turnbuckles work on the T5m!

Since my T5m turnbuckles are on back order with no delivery date, I dug out an extra set of SC10/T4 turnbuckles that I had planned to install on my SC10 before I sold it. They are about 2mm too long on each end, but should work fine as long as I don't use the shortest link position possible. 

When my T5m turnbuckles finally show up I'll probably install them and keep this set as spares. 

Weekend of Mod Truck

After killing another SXX speedo, I dropped in an old Sphere TC unit, with a fan, to control the 6.5 motor.  I raced mod truck Friday and Saturday night. 

After a bunch of wrenching to fix various broken parts I found after a few runs, I finished 4th in the A Friday and 7th in the A Saturday. My fastest lap turned on my MC Ions, a 20.9.  I ran the Friday main on gold pressure points and all day Saturday on gold barcodes. Not much difference in my lap times as thu were hovering in the low 21's. I'll need to make some setup changes as I'm losing a lot of time slowing down for the end of the straight to keep from spinning out in the sweeper.

Below are my race results from Friday and Saturday. 

Friday 

 

Saturday

T5m rear end completed!

Tonight I finished the rear hubs with cva's and built the diff and transmission. I might have over done it with the white lithium grease on the tranny gears as it sure doesn't free spin like my buggy trans. But whatever, I'm building this truck for mod!

T5m build progress

I was able to work on building my T5m some tonight. I was disappointed though as I've already run into a part which was machined wrong. One of my front axles has the wrong thread on the end for the wheel nut :(. I went ahead with the build though. I'll just need to swap out the bad front axle layer.

I finished assembling most of the suspension.  Next up is the diff and transmission.

The axle on the right has the bad thread on it :(

UPDATE:  I emailed AE and Nolan Anderson is sending me some replacement front axles.  Thanks Nolan!

Mod Truck, almost!

I tried to race mod truck. 1st run was ok, then I turned up the power for the 2nd run. I clipped someone's foot at the end of the straight and broke an a-arm and broke a shock mounting screw, losing a delrin shock bushing :(. I fixed that and the steering block kingpin popped out!  I fixed that and went out for another run, turning up the power again. Just as I was getting a feel for the handling, my speed control shut off!  I think something overheated as the case was pretty hot. I let it cool and tried to turn it back, but nothing. I guess it's done. Luckily I have more speed controls for mod at home, so I'll put one of those in and try again next weekend. 

I brought my stock buggy also, so I ended up racing that instead of mod truck.  Grip was pretty good for once!  Lol!  I finished 3rd in both my qualify heats, qualifying 3rd overall. 

In the main I didn't have smooth start and a few cars were able to make a pass on me. This bunched up at least 5 cars. We only managed 2 laps like this before someone up front crashed and cause a pileup. I got out last, but 3 turns later another pileup occurred and I missed that one and came out in 2nd!  I sped up a little to try and catch the leader, but he had at least a 5 second lead by this point. After I shorted the double back to the straight and crashed, the leader had a huge gap on me, so I just maintained 2nd for the rest of the race. At least I pulled out a good finish!